Top Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data pipelines and infrastructure. Maintain and refactor SQL and ETL processes, automate data workflows, ensure data quality/security, and troubleshoot complex issues. Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to translate requirements.

Serve as the technical owner for customer-facing data workflows and integrations: build pipelines, write SQL and Python scripts, deploy AI-powered workflows, manage APIs and Snowflake ingestion, and translate repeatable solutions into product requirements while supporting customer success and internal engineering.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and scale cloud-based data platforms, ensuring quality and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable data solutions.

The Senior Data Engineer will develop data engineering solutions, manage ETL workflows, and establish a new data practice while collaborating with stakeholders.

The Lead Data Platform Engineer will design and build Virtuous's data platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and AI-ready. Responsibilities include architecting access controls, optimizing performance, and enabling self-service analytics while maintaining governance and compliance standards.

The Data Architect will design scalable data models, transform raw data into actionable insights, and deploy analytics solutions for healthcare providers, with a strong emphasis on SQL proficiency and cloud technologies.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and analytical platforms on AWS and Databricks. Migrate legacy workflows to cloud-native services, implement data lake and catalog solutions, enable AI/RAG/vector search, ensure FedRAMP/NIST compliance, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating in Agile teams.

Design, build, and operate Alpaca's scalable data platform and lakehouse infrastructure. Build low-latency streaming and CDC ingestion, batch pipelines landing in Iceberg, and tooling for BI and AI consumers. Manage IaC, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring/incident response, and partner with DevOps and analytics teams to meet growing data requirements.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for defining architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for the enterprise data platform, collaborating with distributed teams for modernization and scalability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines. Partner with Product, Sales Ops, and Finance to deliver analytics and self-service tooling. Maintain SLOs, improve pipeline reliability, implement testing and documentation, and contribute to data platform strategy and operations.

Design, build, and own end-to-end data systems and pipelines powering payments, fraud response, and reporting. Implement streaming and batch integrations, APIs, and workflow orchestration. Define data correctness with monitoring, alerting, and tests. Create reusable patterns and collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and tradeoffs.

Design and own Ceresti’s end-to-end data architecture, including secure raw-data storage, validated file and API ingestion, Postgres pipelines, and curated analytics layers. Establish governance for HIPAA-protected data, data quality, lineage, observability, and access controls. Build ML feature tables and embedding capabilities, collaborate on data contracts, support Agile delivery, and mentor engineers on SQL and data-system design.

Design, develop, and maintain Customer Data Platform solutions and data pipelines to create unified customer profiles, manage identity resolution, enable audience segmentation and activation, ensure data quality and governance, and support integrations with marketing, CRM, and cloud data systems.

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Designs and maintains Snowflake-based cloud data pipelines and lake architectures for asset-based finance and mortgage servicing analytics. Leads legacy-system migrations, ETL/ELT development, data validation, reconciliation, and financial integrity controls. Translates business requirements into Jira epics and user stories, supports project planning, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness, and coordinates with business, finance, operations, and technical stakeholders.

Design and scale Zip’s enterprise data and AI platform across batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured workloads. Build reliable pipelines, AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector and hybrid search, and RAG capabilities. Establish standards for modeling, testing, governance, security, observability, and automation. Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and influencing platform architecture.

Design and build modern GCP lakehouse architectures, including Python and Spark pipelines, BigQuery ingestion, Kafka CDC, Delta Lake and Iceberg UniForm integrations, Delta Sharing endpoints, Snowflake and Databricks connectivity, data lineage, governed access controls, and semantic-layer alignment. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and deliver reusable data-sharing adapters and end-to-end data features.

Build and lead complex data integration projects from client onboarding through ongoing platform usage. Analyze and resolve data discrepancies, troubleshoot SIS and SSO integrations, develop internal Retool applications, perform code reviews, prioritize backlogs, manage projects, and mentor teammates. The role requires advanced SQL, development expertise, technical leadership, and collaboration with internal stakeholders, with Ruby on Rails, AWS, Git, and K-12 education experience preferred or desired.

Leads enterprise data engineering initiatives by designing and optimizing data pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, and analytics infrastructure. Uses Snowflake, Informatica, SQL, and related technologies to integrate diverse data sources, improve data quality, secure PII, and support analytics and data science teams. Establishes governance, monitoring, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency practices while mentoring teammates and partnering with stakeholders on complex technical solutions.

Leads data and analytics engineering for Zero Trust maturity assessment and implementation measurement. Designs common data models, integrates and validates enterprise data, develops maturity and risk metrics, supports prioritization and gap analysis, and establishes data quality, lineage, traceability, and documentation practices. Partners with dashboard and automation specialists to streamline reporting and data refresh workflows.

Own and operate the Snowflake warehouse and Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt model scoping and review, reverse-ETL, data quality SLAs, dashboards, month-end financial analytics, vendor management, and automation to support AdOps, Sales, Finance, and executive reporting.

Own and scale Provable's data platform on GCP: build and optimize ingestion pipelines from blockchain indexers, design privacy-aware data models, manage Postgres and BigQuery, develop high-performance data-serving APIs, ensure data quality and observability, and use IaC (Terraform, Helm) and Kubernetes to deploy and cost-optimize environments.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data platform architecture. Build programmatic pipelines (primarily Python), optimize analytical data models (SQL), integrate sources into Snowflake, use orchestration/transformation tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster), improve data quality/observability, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

Lead architecture and execution of Faire's data platform and analytics capabilities. Build and operate scalable, secure ETL/ELT, streaming, storage, compute, orchestration, and data warehousing at petabyte scale. Drive performance, cost, monitoring, governance, and self-serve analytics; influence cross-functional teams and mentor engineers.

Design and maintain a dbt-based business data layer for GTM metrics, centralize and reconcile multi-source data, implement automated data quality and reconciliation checks, align and document metrics with stakeholders, mentor analytics team, and lead root-cause investigations into complex data anomalies.